The Board has granted service connection for adjustment disorder with depression, secondary to the Veteran's service-connected residuals of cold injury to the left and right feet. The claim for service connection for residuals of a cold weather injury to bilateral upper extremity is denied as there is no evidence that these conditions are related to in-service cold exposure.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found the Veteran's complaints involving his bilateral hands not consistent with cold exposure, but rather more likely associated with osteoarthritis and degenerative disc disease of the neck.
- Claimed conditions
- Adjustment Disorder with Depression, Residuals of Cold Weather Injury to Bilateral Upper Extremity (to include Peripheral Neuropathy)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 2, 2015
- Citation
- 1523218
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